‘We Are a Training and Development Organisation’ – Research and Development in Finnish Polytechnics

Author(s):  
Jussi Välimaa ◽  
Marja-Liisa Neuvonen-Rauhala
Author(s):  
Andrea Valéria Steil ◽  
Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini ◽  
João Artur de Souza ◽  
Denise de Cuffa ◽  
Rejane Costa

Different reasons influence intentions of technical and scientific professionals to stay or leave their current jobs, impacting the ability of companies to retain these professionals. This paper identified the antecedents of intentions to leave, intentions to stay, and retention of such technical and scientific professionals in private research and development organizations from the Greater Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data was collected via online questionnaires between December, 2014 and March, 2015. Job satisfaction and supervisory support were negatively related to the intention to leave the organization, and positively related to the intention to stay in the organization. Training and development opportunities and organizational culture presented negative relation only to the intention to leave the organization. The article discusses these results and presents suggestions for future studies.


1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (661) ◽  
pp. 182-183

The key to an understanding of the National Gas Turbine Establishment at Pyestock lies, perhaps, in the large engineering bias of the professional scientific and technical staff of this advanced research and development organisation, of whom over eighty per cent are engineers by training, so that in every direction the thirst for knowledge and the pursuit of novel techniques is tempered by engineering judgment. For example, even among the specialists, materials science is not narrowly equated with crystallography, chemistry or metallurgy, but is considered largely as the art of exploiting all likely materials to maximum advantage in air breathing propulsion systems.


Author(s):  
Asih Setiawati

This study focuses on researcher human resources of government research and development institutions in Indonesia, who are facing the issues of low research and development outputs and minimum impacts to the market. Employing post-positivism paradigm,  qualitative data collection method, it aims to examine the ideal development of future researcher HRs. The findings indicate that the research and development institutions had good awareness of the concept of human resource development, giving opportunities for researchers to learn. However, it is also revealed that the institutions were not on the right track in developing human resources, which includes trainings and development, and career and organization development. This research recommends the establishment of leader (management), both as the head of the program/team that acts as a team of change and a framework of integrated human resource development, comprising individual development aspects, career, and organizations accurately implemented using particular stages from analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. The need to conduct needs analysis of training and development. It has been  identified that prior to the analysis of training and development, track records of researchers, businesses with their databases, and activities of development and evaluation are needed as feedback for the team of change in the available human resource development theory.


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